Great news to see the Grandad of mobile browsing is still continuing to grow some 9 years after it first launched. Its not always so easy to compare the Japanese mobile market with any other, however this one statistic does I believe, have credible value as it shows a mature market still growing which can only bode well for the US market which is catching up fast!

Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released the latest Internet population data in Japan. According to the report, there were more than 90.9 million Internet users in Japan as of January 2009, which is 2.8 million more than the date from January 2008.

The data also shows there were 82.55 million Internet users from PC, compared to 75.06 million Internet users from mobile.

The most positive of all this data is that massive 90% of people in the age group of 13-49 are Mobile Internet users. That figures is about 20 - 25% in the US so lots of growth potential still to happen.

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